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Exile and Return : the Babylonian Context
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"This collection of essays explores new ways of understanding the Babylonian Exile and the return to Yehud - a formative period in ancient Judaism. Drawing among others on new materials from cuneif...
"This collection of essays explores new ways of understanding the Babylonian Exile and the return to Yehud - a formative period in ancient Judaism. Drawing among others on new materials from cuneiform texts, the contributions study how Judean and other exiles interacted with the host society and vice versa, the way in which various biblical books reflect Babylonian culture, and the return migration to Jerusalem"--
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- Creator
- edited by Jonathan Stökl and Caroline Waerzeggers
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berlin : De Gruyter, [2015]
- ©2015
- Physical Details
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- vi, 371 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 3110578093, 3110417006, 9783110417005, 9783110419290, 9783110419528, 3110419521, 3110419289, 9783110419283
- OCLC
- ocn929142876, ocn932570628, ocn919486443
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Identifying Judeans and Judean identity in the Babylonian evidence / Laurie E. Pearce -- Negotiating marriage in multicultural Babylonia: an example from the Judean community in Āl-Yāhūdu / Kathleen Abraham -- From Syria to Babylon and back: the Neirab archive / Gauthier Tolini -- West Semitic groups in the Nippur region between c. 750 and 330 B.C.E. / Ran Zadok -- Egyptians in Babylonia in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods / Johannes Hackl, Michael Jursa -- Babylonian kingship in the Persian period: performance and reception / Caroline Waerzeggers -- "A youth without blemish, handsome, proficient in all wisdom, knowledgeable and intelligent": Ezekiel's access to Babylonian culture / Jonathan Stökl -- The setting of Deutero-Isaiah: some linguistic considerations / H.G.M. Williamson -- Picking up the pieces of the little prince: refractions of Neo-Babylonian kingship ideology in Ezekiel 40-48? / Madhavi Nevader -- The reality of the return: the biblical picture versus historical reconstruction / Lester L. Grabbe -- Sheshbazzar, a Judean or a Babylonian?: a note on his identity / Jason M. Silverman -- The impact of the second and third-generation returnees as a model for understanding the post-exilic context / Katherine Southwood -- Temple funding and priestly authority in Achaemenid Judah / Peter R. Bedford